Posts Tagged: temperature


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Jun 12

Solar Hot Water Temperature Monitoring with Arduino + ThingSpeak

Here’s another “Klink Family Adventure”. The Klink’s created a solar water heater monitor using an Arduino connected to multiple waterproof DS18B20 temperature sensors. What’s great about this project is that it has the complete schematic and source code for interfacing multiple sensors to ThingSpeak at the same time. This is a common request in the ThingSpeak forum, so we are glad to see the code in the wild. The application is great. Monitoring the yield of a solar water heating system allows you to keep track of efficiency and savings.

Here’s what the temperature looks like now in Australia:

Check out the family’s blog for the source code and to learn how to create your own solar water heater monitoring system.

[via Klink Family Adventures]

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11
May 12

Smart Home Project with ThingSpeak, Arduino, chipKIT, and Drupal

Via Twitter, we caught wind of a project by a group of Rutgers University SCI ITI students. As their final project, the team built a working model of a smart home using sensors connected to ThingSpeak cloud services via Arduino and chipKit. They were able to embed their data and integrate with their Drupal-based website and show a live demonstration of the smart house. Lots of cool technology went into their project including a small scale model complete with balsa wood and Popsicle sticks. This proved to be a great way to show how their project works with other students and faculty.

This video that we discovered on YouTube is the team’s presentation. You will get to see ThingSpeak in action, live in front of an audience about halfway thru…

We hope you got an “A” on the project (do they still give letter grades?)!

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23
Nov 11

Connect Sensors to ThingSpeak via Teracom

[david] from Toute la Domotique adapted the Teracom box to connect to ThingSpeak web services for data logging of sensors. In his article, “Suivi de Température“, David covers the ThingSpeak integration in a 6 part tutorial written in French.

Teracom temperature monitoring with ThingSpeak

The Teracom box allows for 1-wire connections to sensors. David connected a temperature sensor to the 1-wire bus, an Ethernet connection, and customized the controller to push data to ThingSpeak for data logging of environmental sensor data. The tutorial also includes great photos clearly showing the setup for others to repeat.

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01
Sep 11

DIY Weather Station with Arduino, Processing, and ThingSpeak

[lars] created a weather station from scratch using sensors and bits from SparkFun and Adafruit. Lars wanted to log weather data and access it from remotely. He built the weather station using humidity, temperature, pressure, and light sensors collecting data from his apartment in Ithaca, NY. Originally, Lars was collecting data with his own web application created with PHP and MySQL. He has since started publishing his data to ThingSpeak where others can view the data and potentially build applications.

ThingSpeak Weather Station

Behind the scenes, Lars uses the Arduino microcontroller to collect data from the sensors and uses Processing to publish data to his ThingSpeak Channel.

From Lars’ project site:

The goal of this project is to log some weather data and be able to access it from anywhere. There is some sensor data (temperature, relative humidity, pressure, and ambient light) and some computed data (dew point). You can see the weather condition in my apartment in Ithaca, NY at my Thing Speak Channel 346. You can also look at the Google Chart of my own MySQL solution, which I no longer maintain.

Check out a detailed breakdown of the Weather Station project and more awesome projects on Lars’ project site, called “make.larsi.org“.

[via make.larsi.org]

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31
Aug 11

Home Automation System HomeVisionXL adds ThingSpeak Plugin

HomeVisionXL adds a ThingSpeak Plugin for environmental data logging to their home automation controller. HomeVisionXL “is a cross-platform tool for developing schedules for the HomeVision integrated home controller.” The plugin was created by ThingSpeak user [bgardner] and adds data logging capability to the HomeVision home automation system.

ThingSpeak HomeVisionXL Plugin

Visit the ThingSpeak Plugin page for more information on how to use this plugin with your HomeVision home automation system.

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21
Jul 11

Filtrete 3M-50 Wi-Fi Thermostat Connected to ThingSpeak

[david]  created a project that reads the temperature from a Filtrete 3M-50 Wi-Fi Thermostat and sends the data to ThingSpeak. He also grabs the latest temperature as reported by Yahoo Weather and sends it to be compare with his inside temperatures. Using ThingSpeak in this way gives David a historical view of his house temperatures and an indication of how well his installation is working in both the summer and winter months. Visit Davi’d weblog, “MyBlog4Fun“, for the script and project details.

Filtrete Thermostat Posting Data to ThingSpeak

[via MyBlog4Fun.com]

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20
Apr 11

Sensor Monitoring with mbed and ThingSpeak

[Frank] has created a complete tutorial on how to publish sensor data to ThingSpeak via the mbed prototyping platform. He specifically shows you how to connect the mbed to DS1620 temperature sensor and push data to a ThingSpeak data channel. From the seed of this project, we can see many applications for monitoring temperatures and sending push messages to the iPhone using Prowl when sensor data gets out-of-bounds.

Frank says,

This project uses a mbed microcontroller (LPC1768 ARM Cortex-M3) to monitor temperature using a DS1620 (digital temperature sensor IC), retrieve the time via NTP (network time protocol), and then log the current temperature to ThingSpeak along with a time-stamp.

Temperature Monitor Using mbed, DS1620, and ThingSpeak

[via Circle of Current / Dangerous Prototypes]

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02
Apr 11

Tracking Office Temperature with FEZ Cobra (user project)

[foxxjnm] tracks his office temperature with ThingSpeak. He had a temperature probe and a FEZ Cobra development board lying around, so he decided to connect them to the ThingSpeak API.

I have been playing around with the ThingSpeak API a little this week. I decided to get my FEZ Cobra reporting temperature data from my office at work. Why a temperature sensor you ask?… Because I had one laying around.. That was good enough for me, guess I’m simple like that.

FEZ Cobra Connected to ThingSpeak

[via codefox blog]

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22
Jan 11

Using Arduino and Python to Update a ThingSpeak Channel

“mattyw” shows us how to read a thermistor temperature sensor with an Arduino and use a python script to update a ThingSpeak Channel.